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Chapter 11. Cobbler
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cobbler profile add --name=string --distro=string [--kickstart=url] [--
virt-file-size=gigabytes] [--virt-ram=megabytes]
The
--name= string
is the unique label for the profile, such as
rhel5webserver
or
rhel4workstation
.
The
--distro= string
switch specifes the distribution that will be used for this particular profile.
Distributions were added in
Section 11.2, “Adding a Distribution to Cobbler”
.
The
--kickstart= url
option specifies the location of the kickstart file (if available).
The
--virt-file-size= gigabytes
option allows you to set the size of the virtual guest file image.
The default is 5 gigabytes if left unspecified.
The
--virt-ram= megabytes
option specifies how many megabytes of physical RAM that a virtual
guest system can consume. The default is 512 megabytes if left unspecified.
11.4. Adding a System to Cobbler
Once the distributions and profiles for Cobbler have been created, you can next add systems to
Cobbler. System records map a piece of hardware on a client with the cobbler profile assigned to run
on it.
Note
If you are provisioning via
koan
and PXE menus alone, it is not required to create system
records, though they are useful when system-specific kickstart templating is required or to
establish that a specific system should always recieve a specific content installed. If there
is a specific role inteded for a specified client, system records should be created for it.
For information about creating and configuring kickstarts from the RHN
Satellite interface, refer to
Section 7.4.2.9.4, “System Details � Provisioning —
”
.
The following command adds a system to the Cobbler configuration:
cobbler system add --name=string --profile=string --mac=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
The
--name= string
is the unique label for the system, such as
engineeringserver
or
frontofficeworkstation
.
The
--profile= string
specifies one of the profile names added in
Section 11.3, “Adding a Profile
to Cobbler”
.
The
--mac= AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
option allows systems with the specified MAC address to
automatically be provisioned to the profile associated with the system record if they are being
kickstarted.
For more options, such as setting hostname or IP addresses, refer to the Cobbler manpage by typing
man cobbler
at a shell prompt.